House
in Izumi-chuoWe are currently designing the house located
in the suburbs of Yokohama City. The site is situated on the hill side being
turned into series of housing lots along with the huge housing land developments
taking place in this area. This kind of landscape is now becoming common
sights in the typical Japanese Suburbs. The surrounding houses are sitting
quite indifferently on the existing parking garage and the retaining walls
pre-provided on each housing lots. Our design approach was to seek the new
relationship between the new house and these existing structures.
We placed 1st floor on the existing structure keeping its height as low
as possible so that these structures will also become the parts of the design
elements. The 2nd floor is elevated from the lower volume while it is being
set back from the adjacent streets. It enable to obtain the clear view from
2nd floor living room and also to create various spaces inside as well as
outside of the house.